Disaster recovery manager

You can recover data at an alternative site, on replacement computer hardware, and with people who are not familiar with the applications. You can also manage your offsite recovery media, store client recovery information, and use the disaster recovery plan for audits to certify the recoverability of the server.

To recover from a disaster, you must know the location of your offsite recovery media. DRM helps you to determine which volumes to move offsite and back onsite and track the location of the volumes.

You can use complementary technologies to protect the Tivoli® Storage Manager server and to provide an alternative to disaster recovery. For example, you can use DB2® HADR to replicate the Tivoli Storage Manager database or device-to-device replication.

To ensure high server availability, you can use node replication with clustering to minimize a disaster risk. In a clustered environment, a client is less likely to fail over to another server. If you replicate data from several source replication servers to one target replication server, there is a high dependency on the target replication server. A clustered environment eases the dependency on the target replication server.